[music playing]
[police radio chatter]
- So we just got dispatched to a--
a domestic disturbance-- well, domestic violence
with a weapon.
Caller states that the father took out a gun
and shot it in the air.
Here we go.
- 10-3, tag six.
10-3, tag six.
[inaudible]
- Hey.
- So explain to me what's going on out here.
OK.
- We got back and forth.
We got to arguing.
She took off.
Uh, I handed my pistol to--
- Do you have your firearm on you right now?
- No, no, no. No.
- Who has it? - It's in the house.
- It's in the house? OK.
- She-- she-- I--
- So what happened with the firearm?
- As I was taking it out, I handed it to him.
And it went off.
- You been drinking too?
You know you can't have-- you can't be walking around
with a gun while you've been drinking.
I got you. I got you.
[music playing] All right, man.
So you've got to tell me what happened, bro.
Come over here so he don't hear.
- He got emotional with what he was saying.
And that's when I got off the porch and was like,
no what, it's getting too intense now.
You know I'm saying?
Because I'm not going to stand in the way of some relationship
things.
And so when I got up and I went to the door to say,
OK, let this go, because I see your emotions is getting high--
- Was she intimidated by him having that firearm?
Did she know he had a firearm? - No, no, no, no.
Because he came behind the car and got the boys.
And it was st-- it was out his pocket.
So--
- It was sticking out his pocket?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. So she knew that it was there.
So, I mean, if she felt threatened by it,
I couldn't tell.
- Let me go talk to her and see what's going on.
What happened?
- We got into a heated conversation
about things that happened within our marriage.
He cheated for all the years.
But he got mad a few months ago when he found out
I was dating someone else.
So he basically said, if I see that [bleep] in your driveway,
I'm going to kill him.
So that kind of set me off.
- Got you.
- But I-- I'm still trying to leave.
He's kind of standing in my doorway.
So I couldn't even drive off.
- Will you be willing to write a statement?
Do you want to prosecute, all that kind of stuff, for that?
- I feel like I should.
This isn't the first time we've had an issue with violence.
It's-- so I kind of think it's going to continue to happen.
- I would nip it in the bud, if I were you.
- OK.
- Especially when there's a firearm
involved, and it's going off. - Yeah.
- Around your children. - I didn't like that.
I didn't like that. - That's a huge problem.
- Yeah.
- What if it goes off on accident,
and it hits you or hits one of the kids?
- Or my kids. - Yeah.
All right. [music playing]
All right, man.
So what's up with you saying if the boyfriend comes over here
that you're going to kill him?
Are you going-- so you going to kill somebody?
- No, I didn't say if he come over here.
I said if I see him.
I said that.
I'll be honest.
I said that.
It's-- it's an emotional, passionate situation.
- I got you. I got you.
Well, you know you're saying that you messed up, right?
I'm going to be honest with you.
- I mean, like I said, this is-- this is tender.
My kids are involved. I'm in court here.
- I got you. - And it's not--
it's the truth.
- Right now-- hey, right now just turn around.
- Yeah. - Be cool.
Put your hands behind your back.
All right, big man?
I ain't going to-- you're a big dude.
So I'm going to try and make this--
I'm going to do two handcuffs on you.
All right?
[cuffing] All right, man.
Hey, you're under arrest for domestic violence, bro.
All right? - Domestic violence?
- Yeah. - How?
- You're married.
- I didn't touch her.
- When you have a firearm, and you make threats,
and the gun goes off in an argument between her--
- No, he grabbed my pistol. It--
- Trust me.
I talked to him too. - Yes.
And I handed him the weapon.
- He didn't rat you out, but he--
- I handed him the weapon.
- I got you.
But when you're in an argument with your-- with your wife with
a gun showing out of your pocket--
- There was no gun showing. You just assumed that.
- That's not what he-- that's not what he said.
The witness just told me there was.
- A gun showing?
- Your roommate just told me there was.
- A gun showing?
- Yeah.
- Me handing him the pistol is showing?
- No, he said you were arguing.
She said she could see it when you were arguing.
- You know what?
I'm not going to argue with you, Mr. Simmons.
You right. You right.
- I got you. I ain't trying to treat you bad.
- I'm just being honest. - I'm just letting you know.
Your firearm went off.
- Is-- is she dead?
I'm a ranger. Is she dead?
- I was a ranger-- - She's alive.
- Hey, I was a ranger too in the army, man.
- Is-- is she live?
Is she dead?
You know our training.
Is she dead? - I get you.
But just because you shoot somebody--
- I didn't pull no pistol on her.
- Man, I know.
But I'm saying when the firearm goes off,
what if it ricochets, and goes off and hits somebody?
- That's a domestic violence charge?
- Yeah.
[music playing]
Once you have a firearm involved, you intimidate
somebody, you makes some threats towards them,
it's going to be domestic violence
in a high and aggravated nature in South Carolina.
With firearms, we don't play.
Even if the kids perceived or anything,
once you pull that firearm out, the show is basically over.